​Join host Elle Van Gundy as she strips away the construction paper feathers and pious legends to reveal the desperate reality of the "First Thanksgiving." In this first installment of a two-part special, we travel back to 1621 to discover that the famous feast wasn't about friendship—it was about survival.

​From the devastation of the "Great Dying" plague to the cold political calculus of Massasoit's alliance, this episode dismantles the myth of the welcoming wilderness and explores the tense military summit that history rewrote as a dinner party.